Voyager 1 Moving Into Interstellar Space Gradually

By Ranjan BhaduriDec 14, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Voyager 1 Spacecraft made by NASA is slowly moving out of the solar system as scientists have measured. The unmanned spacecraft will take 4 more years to exit the solar system completely and venture into outer space. In June this year the NASA scientists had discovered that the space craft reached the speed of solar winds. The NASA team knew it would take place and they were waiting for the time. The updates of the space craft will be unveiled on Tuesday at San Francisco’s American Geophysical Union meeting as it has been reported.

The Voyager 1 was launched into space way back in 1977 along with Voyager 2 its twin. The two space crafts explored the solar system along with planets. They were programmed to go into different directions. Voyager 1 moved to the north while its twin Voyager 2 headed towards south. The Voyager 1 is now cruising along at a mammoth speed of 38,000 mph. It is almost 10.8 billion miles away from the sun. Its sibling Voyager 2 is now moving at a speed of 35,000 mph. It is expected that the speed of Voyager 1 will diminish as it steps into interstellar space. This is going to happen because the atmosphere in the interstellar space is drastically different from that of the solar system.

Voyager 1 was launched when Jimmy carter was the president of USA. It was the brainchild of the U.S. National Space and Aeronautics Administration. The radio signals sent by the space craft Voyager 1 take 16 hours to reach the Earth now and with time this time gap is going to increase, as it moves further away.